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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 on Sun IPX stores only 2GB!
- Message-ID: <413@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:32:30 GMT
- References: <BxKqns.7J9@portal.hq.videocart.com>
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- In article <BxKqns.7J9@portal.hq.videocart.com> mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews) writes:
- <We have just installed an Exabyte 8500 5GB tape on a Sun IPX running
- <Sun OS 4.1.2. It's on the first SCSI bus, esp0 as Target 4, making it st0.
- <
- <The problem: It only stores 2GB! Does Sun send something to the drive
- <that makes it go into a 8200 compatibility mode?
- <
- <Does anybody have any ideas as to what's happening here?
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- Ya, RTFM!
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- The instructions for the drive tell you that the default device is 2.3 GB and
- that the default device +8 is 5.0 GB.
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- So, to make 5.0 GB tapes rquires that you use /dev/rst8
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